South African AB de Villiers has become joint world number one with Australia captain Michael Clarke.

Trott scored 12 and 112 in Galle, but Cook scored only 14 runs in the match, following his first-innings duck with 14 from 25 balls in the second.

England batsmen in rankings

Position

Name

Ranking

9

J Trott

762

14

A Cook

747

18

I Bell

714

22

K Pietersen

675

24

M Prior

661

28

A Strauss

601

Pietersen scored three in the first innings, but seemed on course for a decent score in England's second-innings run chase, only to fall for 30 when he clipped Suraj Randiv to midwicket and was caught by Mahela Jayawardene.

De Villiers joins Michael Clarke at the top of the pile on 821 points, after scoring 83 in South Africa's nine-wicket victory over New Zealand in the Hamilton Test, and 38 and 68 in the drawn Wellington Test.

Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, who had entered the Galle Test as the number one ranked Test batsman, scored just 14 runs in the match.

In the ICC Test bowling rankings, Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath climbed six places to a career-high seventh. The left-arm spinner took 6-74 and 6-97 in Galle.

England need to win the Colombo Test if it they are to retain the number one team ranking.

If they lose the series 2-0, they will drop from 118 ratings points to 113, three points behind South Africa. A 1-0 defeat will see England slip to 114 ratings points.